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Last Night a DJ (Festival) Saved My Life

March 22, 2006 at 2:57 PM | 0 Comments

We're still working our way through this month's brick of Travel and Leisure--though the brand-new T+L 35 has already surpassed Girls of the Big Ten as our favorite magazine article ever written--but one thing that caught our attention was the article about the Crimean DJ/house music/techo festival, Kazantip.

Kazantip draws 50,000 visitors to the Ukraine, mostly Russians and Ukrainians, dancing around ten stages each night during the entire six weeks it takes place. The beachside festival will celebrate its thirteenth birthday this summer. It's a big deal: Kazantip organizers made a gigantic gate, a la Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, at the entrance to the "Kazantip Republic", and one of the stages is even built on stilts over the ocean.

It sure beats the hell out of Shakespeare in the Park, doesn't it?

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